On Avis Rental Cars

The PT Cruiser:
So fun to drive! Makes me tall!
Good rental surprise!

But… the turn signals…
Impossible to toggle.
Lisa fat-fingers.

Turning radius:
Not so good – 3 tries to park.
A bit of a whale.

And did I mention
They fall apart? Warranty:
It’s insubstantial.

On Visual Studio Lag

Remote Desktop takes
9 seconds to change tabs in
my damn IDE.

I literally can't change to a different file view without a multi-second wait. I'm just about livid with frustration at the lag.

What's a girl gotta
do, just to get some help here?
Time to suck dick now.

Seriously - I don't know what the senior folks on this project do all day. I'm completely blocked until I can talk to one of them... one's been stuck in a meeting for 3 hours, and the other 2 are entirely MIA. It's goddamn infuriating.

On Pandora, the Music Player

Pandora! Clever,

Mostly, but I'll never like

Blink 182.

So stop trying to feed it to my ears.

Construction outside
my office window makes my
concentration die!

Ok, so the sound of jackhammering will inevitably be for the greater good for the most part, but any chance at my being productive today has gone down the toilet.

On Automatic Car Locks

Rental car locks the
doors when I start the engine.
Yay safety features!

But... could it maybe
UNlock when the car turns off?
Stuck, confused lisas ;_;

My car locks when started and unlocks when stopped. In this way, I get safe, locked doors while driving around, and when I stop the car, I don't end up yanking on the handle going "Gah, wtf?? Let me out!!" Maybe my rental behaves like it does because Memphis (alias: Sir Stabsalot) parking lots are extra dangerous? Probably it's just to confuse me.

On Building New Servers

Provisioning does
not mean two months to apt-get
install ssh.

Seriously. Two months waiting on a freaking Debian server with ssh. This is not hard, guys. >_<